The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-25
TRAMP TRIPS FOR WOMEN.
How Some Members Of the Art Stu
dents League Enjoy p Vacation.

dents League Enjoy q Vacation.
New YORK, July GA novel
vacation party left tho city this
morning 1t comprised half dozen mem
bers, an artist whose name is not unknown
with his wife heading the group and ac-
companied by a quartctte of girls III their
early twenties, two OF them being pupils of
the Art Students League. Tho six are ell
route for the Catskills, but they viii not see
the sun rise from the plateau il front of tho
Mountain House tomorrow morning. They
purpose 10 he anywhere from q week to a
month on the road. In n word, they are
going to walk
! 4 tramp trip through some Of the most
be9fy fhl-thongh it may not arrogate to
EIl fthe title grandcSt-s scenery. in the East
IS Matthe party, largely feminine has in
npul Taking boat from New York to New
Brunswick, the pedestrians will have a look
at the Orange aud Ramapo hills, swinging
round 10 the Delaware Water Gap and
working their way by easy stages north
through the Swawangunks-betterw worth
knowing if less known than the rest of the
Catskills--and 50 on, to whatever final de
stinaton fancy may direct them, walking
in the cool of the morning and in the late
afternoon, sleeping in farm houses or III an
occasional barn if the hay mows happen to
be piled soft and high and the watch dog be
not too attentive. Baggage has been limited
20 a small lightweight canvas bag swung
by leather straps over the shoulders of each,
and the object of the iarnt is the enjoyment
piIre and simple of lapse into bohemianism,
the probabilities being that POultney Bige-
low will get an account of the undertake
ing with Sheaf of sketches for Outing in
| the fall.
The women of the party, ''the gallant
five, as the hOme-stayers dub them, have
adopted as accoutrements for the tramp
skirts of brown serge, undraped, as light as
| possible and short, Just reaching to the tops
of high walking boots made for the occasion;
blouse waists with scarlet sashes for pic
turesque effect, brown sailor hat with scar
let ribbons, oil of pennyrOyal for mosquito
bites and plenty of pluck to last them the
Journey through. AlpenstOcks are dispensed
with and parasos left at home, the old-time
heat remedy of handful of broad, wet
leaves in the hat being relied on for duty in
time of need.
Such a trip afoot is not usual vacation
outing for woman, but if the project now
in contemplation for College of Physical
Training for girls in New York goes through,
it may in the future be as much as a matter
of course as it has been in the past out of the
course The proposed school, the place of
which exists in the minds of some of the best
known promoters of physical training in the
country, will be, if opened, unique in design
and scope A desirable uptown west side
corner has been spotted" SO to speak,
money has been promised for the undertake
ing by some of the Vanderbilt CONNECTIONS,
more is expected from one or two of New
York's rich women who have the prospects
of girls at heart and it would not be sur
| prsing if building were commenced within
a brief period. DR.. Mary Taylor Bissell,
sister of the President of Vassar, who is
in charge of girls gymnasium in the city,
is interested in the project, and though moth
| iS 1nfinifnlU ppnplnHpI iS
favorable.
So far as any plans have been precisely
formulated, the design of the new school
will be to dispel the popular notion that the
ill-health of women is natural-that they
are the victims of functions whose exercise
necessarily constitutes a sort of invalidism.
The girls entering will be treated according
to bio Lewis old theory that the micro
scopic misses who swarm about our
schools and chatter in our streets are the
curiositieS of a high civilization" and that
| women who give free play to their lungs
and stomachs ought to grow nearly as large
| as men
All pupils in this school of the future,
which may be a school of the present within
a year will be subjected to daily regimen
with carefully apportiOned exercise, with
view of determining the possibility of i'm
proving their bodies as the bodies of young
men are improved in the German gymnasia.
|
! the academic or college preparatory grade,
will be- it is thought, adopted covering four
years time. Some restriction as to dress it
| is proposed to adopt, not amounting to uni
| form, but making short, loose, light attire,
with no pressure whatever about the waist,
and hygienic shoes compulsory, leaving the
girls all day long as much at liberty as bows
in their gymnasium dress. Pupils will be
measured on entering, and an average gain
of two and half inches about the chest five
| inches about the waist, one and a half
inches about the arm and an inch about
the forearm is what is looked forward to rs
the desirable result of the first years bodily
training and exercise of the typical slim girl
of II.
That such a school would succeed, Dio
Lewis experiments at Lexington years ago
demonstrated. Whether the plan, as at
present entertained. becomes anything more
than plan or not, there is no reason why
the average woman should not add ten fold
to her endowment of life and out-of-door liy-
ing by cultivating the noble art of walking.
delicate woman, properly dressed and
who knows how to walk can walk % miles
OF a summer afternoon without injury when
an equivalent amount of other exercise
might produce serious injury. Walking is
the natural and normal exercise and hurts
no woman who sets rightly about it. A
woman who is unaCCustomed to vigorous
walking in order to become a good pedes-
trian should look first to her shoes. These
should he broad across the forward part of
the foot offering not the least obstruction
to the free movement of the toes. The heels
should be low and broad, and the shoe
should fit rather snugly about the heel and
instep. The full dress equipment should
weigh upon honest scales not more than two
and "A half on three pounds and should hang
from the shoulders without any band. pin
ned or buttoned or laced about the waist.
No woman can walk in corset. The walker
must be comfortable enough to be uucon-
scious of her attire. A hat that shades the
eyes is in order
SO prepared, try any distance that does
not prove fatiguing rs an initial experiment
1t will probably bc from mile and a half
to two miles, and must be walked at a brisk
pace, three miles and half an hour being
good limit. When this can be done, with.
out backache or foot WEAKNESS, and II we'll
woman ought 10 have no difficulty ut her
first trial, increase the distance during the
leisure days of the summer vacation daily.
maintaining the same gait, and II miles a
day for a week or fortnight in succession, p
miles on any occasion that demands it will
be found within any ordinary capacity with
a month or six weeks training
Women will never make the time of
pedestrians of the other sex. There is no
need of their doing it, though Bertha Won
Hillern, believe. can maintain n pace ~
! sin miles an hour. Rut three miles aud